About

I am a Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria and an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada. I am member of the ECPR Executive Committee (2021-2027) and am currently serving as Vice-Chair (2024-2027). From 2021-2024 I served as the Chair of the Ad hoc committee on Equality Diversity and Inclusion. In the next three years, I aim to continue to stimulate collective endeavours and academic exchange through ECPR initiatives. I served on the Steering Committee of the ECPR-SGEU, having also served as its co-Convenor and Convenor. We ensured that our governance represented political science in the widest sense. For instance, we sought gender-balance over time in the role of convenors and geographical and sub-field representation of our members, and reached out to junior, mid-career and senior scholars. We modernised our group and ensured we provided skills and training opportunities for juniors (summer schools and pre-conference events). I was also one of three members in a working group that drafted the first ECPR-SGEU constitution (now bye-laws), inter alia formalising procedures for rotation and regular elections to the Steering Committee. I have served previously on professional associations (Chairperson of the Research Committee on European Unification of the International Political Science Association; the Executive Committee of the European Union Studies Association, USA; and the Board of the European Community Studies Association-Canada), and was ex ufficio of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) through my role as co-editor of JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies). Currently I am the Chair of the Dutch Political Science Association (Nederlandse Kring voor de Wetenschap der Politiek). In that capacity I have also modernised our organisation, reached out to a range of scholars to be more inclusive, and taken our conference online. I initiated a survey to reach out to our members to see how to engage better with our members’ needs. I have many years of experience with international collaboration. I would bring those experiences to the ECPR Executive Committee. A Full Professor at University of Victoria (Canada), I spent a number of sabbatical leaves in Europe. I have been employed at Leiden University (1993-1994 and 2018-2020) and currently am still a guest full professor there. My research focuses on European integration widely defined: political economy, policy, governance, integration theories, and comparative politics. I have published more than 140 articles and chapters, was guest editor of 16 special issues of journals (many reprinted as books), and in total published 20 books including Ruling Europe: The Politics of the Stability and Growth Pact (Cambridge University Press, 2010, co-authored with M. Heipertz) and European Union Governance and Policy Making second edition (University of Toronto Press, 2023) co-edited with Achim Hurrelmann and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly).

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, European Politics, European Union, Federalism, Gender, Governance, Government, Institutions, Integration, Islam, Political Economy, Public Administration, Differentiation, Domestic Politics, Brexit, Eurozone, Member States, Policy-Making

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• European Union
• Differentiated Integration in the EU
• Middle Eastern Policy and EU Relations